Alfred Iverson, Sr.

Alfred Iverson, Sr. (3 December 1798-4 March 1873) was a US Senator from Georgia from 4 March 1855 to 28 January 1861, succeeding William C. Dawson and preceding Joshua Hill.

Biography
Alfred Iverson, Sr. was born in Liberty County, Georgia on 3 December 1798, and he graduated from Princeton University in 1820 with a law degree. He practiced law in Clinton, Jones County, Georgia after passing the bar examination, and he sat in the State House of Representatives from 1827 to 1830 and in the State Senate from 1843 to 1844, serving as a member of the US Democratic Party. As a US senator during the last years of the Antebellum era, Iverson was opposed to Georgia's secession, and he withdrew from the Senate before the American Civil War broke out. He practiced law until 1868, and he died in East Macon in 1873.